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Originally Posted by aberkok
My position on cell phones is, I think, logical and can be understood by answering the following question:
"What did everyone do before the widespread use of cell phones?"
The world wasn't crying out for an end to land-line slavery. I think we were all just fine. Which one of the following problems seem trivial to you?
-cancer
-AIDS
-world hunger
-genocides
-the worldwide rich/poor divide
-lack of affordable widespread portable telecommunication devices
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Which one of these problems has a convenient and available solution right now? What did we do before regular phones? What did we do before electricity? What did we do before we had Interstate highways? What did we do before we had refrigeration for food?
We got along fine without stuff that makes life more convenient, but now that we have it, there's no sense in shunning it just because we were able to live without it. What did you do before the Internet? It has similar uses to cell phones: recreation, business, convenient communication and data transfer, and you're not telling us that we can get by just fine without it.
Start with your question, and back up through every technological advance we've made in the last five thousand years. Humans survived without them, but we got a lot farther after we had them. If I'm going to disconnect my cell phone because I got along fine without it, I might as well saddle up a horse and ride down to Amish country, becaus that's where that train of thought leads me.